Aquaman: Special Edition

This edit turns this movie from what was just a fun romp into a more faster-paced action-adventure film. The problems with the TC of Aquaman are removed and any moments of those cuts are not noticeable. Even though a lot of the 'fun' is cut out, Arthur still feels like the fun character he is mostly portrayed as in the original movie and other appearances. This version serves as a great shelf replacer and I would give it a watch if you are on the fence about it.

Absolutely brilliant! Well done WUK!

A lot of the more irritating bits are gone now, and I like the rescoring of the Black Manta prep-scene, etc.

Think this will be my go-to version of Aquaman from now on. I've always wanted to cut my own one as my first fanedit ever, but this one accomplished almost everything I'd have done.

(For info - no comment on the fanedit itself at all - the possible bits I'd change from this, which are more personal than anything else: Remove the "pee on it" line. Remove the plinky plonky music bit in the desert designed to show how 'fun' the banter is. Remove the single half-line about the world needing Arthur to be "more than a king // a hero" (I think it would work as "Atlantis has always had a king - now it needs something more [cut to] a king fights for his nation - you fight for everyone"). Remove the profoundly un-physics-y bit of Arthur dragging those inflatable liferafts at high speed after the submarine rescue.)

Either way, in short - fantastic edit, far better than the theatrical, and fulfils the brief of "to keep Arthur dumb and funny" but remove plot-holes, etc.

Oh, and the small changes to the intro and ending are brilliant. The dock ending is perfect.

Thank you so much for this. I strongly recommend to all.

Even though I loved the original movie, my minor problem was that it felt a little like a marvel film, by tryikg to keep things in the tone of the DCEU it helps that problem greatly, thank you for this edit WakeUpKeo!

Aquaman much like Wonderwoman was a movie that I didn't think needed that much editing much less 19 minutes. But after finishing I had to watch my bluray copy to see what all was changed, There were obvious things I noticed like parts of his childhood but I didn't know the extent of how far it went. The editing and moving of scenes is seamless and never left me missing out on anything, extra props for editing the soundtrack cause I am not fond of pitbull.

Now if you don't like this movie I doubt this edit will change your opinion some hate the cheesiness this is the movie with a drumming octopus, I love it for that reason cause it wasn't afraid to take risks and be more colorful and show the more outlandish side of Aquaman.
Not much more I can say other than this edit comes highly recommended and will probably be my go to edit from now on.

The poor soundtrack choices in theatrical/digital had me looking for fanedits that changed such aspect. This one in particular did some things I never knew I wanted: reducing kid Arthur's bad acting, trimming down exposition dumps and general Marvel-liness (I didn't mind it on my first watch, maybe I just got sick of funnies in superhero movies since the trash that was Love and Thunder). The edits were clean as well, it's been years since I last watched it and I didn't notice anything off. A perfect fan edit all in all!